We're Not There Yet...

So today I went with Diego to one of our favorite haunts, the library. As much as I enjoy spending time in the children's section, I sometimes wish I could wander over to the adult stacks and pick a book for myself, one that can't be read in five minutes, one that doesn't rhyme...
We spent the requisite hour and forty minutes in the Ingrid Boyer Room, a wonderful fantasia built to make children adore books for life, replete with treehouses, a secret window (a relic from the original building, uncovered in the renovation and expansion of the library a few years back, really cool) and more toys, puppets and art supplies than any child could exhaust in a day's visit. After picking out and reading several stories, solving an array of puzzles, and even giving in to renting a few DVDs, I wondered aloud if we could chance a visit to the adult area, where I knew the exact location of several craft books I wanted to borrow in anticipation of the coming holiday season. A friendly (and probably childless) librarian said, "I think he's ready. He can handle it, mom!" So after a brief discussion of appropriate "adult section" behavior and a bribe or two, we were off, hand in hand, to the quiet part of the building.
I should have known that this was a mistake. Within the first step into the frigid, adult region, Diego piped up, "It's not noisy in here!" I took him firmly by the arm and quickly scanned the numbers posted on the stacks, found our row, and led him to the very end. There, the windows line the wall and make a sort of perfect seat for curling up with a book--or marching down the entire wall, complete with the animated step of a soldier. Yikes...I grabbed a few of his books and tried to quietly tempt him back toward our row. He literally sneered at me, I think, as if to say, "Yeah, right" and then proudly started jumping up and down, shouting "I like to move it move it, you like to move it move it, they like to move it move it, we like to--MOVE IT!"

Needless to say, we won't be trying that again.